We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most of which are at least seven years or more old.

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

People of color are not under any kind of obligation beyond working hard, doing their best, and learning from their mistakes.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.